Successful scientific writers make use of various lexico-grammatical features to assert their authorial voice in ways that target audience finds most convincing. While many studies have focused on the stance markers writing, very few reported construction Malaysian writers. To address this, this paper reports a three-way comparative study stance-taking made by writers, international counterpart...

Authored by Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil, Stance devices in tourism-related research articles: A corpus-based study (Peter Lang, 2022) is a recently published work that sets out to assess the occurrence and purpose of stance markers articles focused on field tourism. In academic writing, concept 'stance' typically concerned with author's perspective or viewpoint particular topic. This includes idea...

Much research has studied stance markers, but little does detailed analysis on specific functions of a epistemic adverb apart from its classified basic function. This corpus-study the different one "obviously" in three seasons Sherlock Holmes. The results are generated using Antconc software. Three practical induced and some implications learning teaching markers further discussed.

People tend to avoid exposed disagreement in conversation. This is normally attributed to politeness strategies that mitigate the potential face-threat created by direct disagreement with a conversational partner. In reported speech the pressure for mitigation of negative responses is removed, leading to the prediction that reported speech should contain more exposed disagreement. However, conc...

The study aimed to investigate the frequency and type of stance engagement features in each move book reviews soft hard disciplines according Hyland’s (2005) Interactional Metadiscourse taxonomy. A corpus 102 published by 30 first quality journals 6 was randomly selected analyzed. results indicated a significant difference between terms markers. Furthermore, Move 2 (Outlining) enjoyed highest f...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to analyze the crutch position in the horizontal plane to confirm the stability of the axillary pad during double-crutch walking. [Subjects] Twelve healthy young subjects (6 males and 6 females). [Methods] The subjects were asked to walk in a straight line, using double crutches, for a distance of 5 m, 5 times. Crutch position data were obtained using four in...

The sociolinguistic construct of stancetaking describes the activities through which discourse participants create and signal relationships to their interlocutors, to the topic of discussion, and to the talk itself. Stancetaking underlies a wide range of interactional phenomena, relating to formality, politeness, affect, and subjectivity. We present a computational approach to stancetaking, in ...